Would you eat an insect?

[Thor]

Or a worm? Spiders? If so, what kind? I'd eat mealworms, I heard they don't taste that bad.

Somewhat related, my mom used to work at a fruit rollup factory and she said they used to have to scrape a layer of insect legs and cockroach droppings off the sheets of candy.

[SneakyGameBoy]

Give me a worm and I'll call it a day. Better than eating something that has legs.

[Jester]

Yeah no tons of insect bits get into our food as it is.

That being said, if somebody just like gave me a roach and told me to eat it, i'd be all like, "no."

[Xenomit]

Only if they're the size of Ash hoppers and you can cook the leg meat and don't have to eat all the other stuff

[CiviLies]

If it's properly prepared for human consumption, then I'll give it a try...

[Painbringer]

Insects are the key to sustaining our ever growing human population.

I think I might try it at some point.

[Lagerkapo]

Never

ever

ever

Ever

eating a Fruit Roll-Up again...

[BurningJesus]

I have eaten grubs that have been fried in butter and garlic.

[Thor]

At 1/15/14 08:17 PM, BurningJesus wrote: I have eaten grubs that have been fried in butter and garlic.

Were they good? That sounds interesting, maybe for a salad or with pasta

[GIRFAN]

I've eaten a fried worm, and im sure I've eaten various mosquito as my blood is delicious, the fried worm wasn't bad..

[Thor]

I found an interesting article on various bugs that are eaten, and what they taste like. I didn't know anyone ate giant water bugs, the fuck.

[Skwurll]

I would only eat an insect or worm if my alternative was starvation.

[Saen]

Yeah I've eaten mealworm cookies and candy ants, they were fine.

[KillerSkull]

At 1/15/14 08:05 PM, Thor wrote: Somewhat related, my mom used to work at a fruit rollup factory and she said they used to have to scrape a layer of insect legs and cockroach droppings off the sheets of candy.

Glad I don't eat fruit rollups anymore.

[Piggler]

Many people have eaten bugs regardless of whether they intended to or not.

They often get swept up during grain harvesting and their scattered parts are cooked into baked goods.

[Thor]

At 1/15/14 08:51 PM, Piggler wrote: They often get swept up during grain harvesting and their scattered parts are cooked into baked goods.

I'm thinking they're in everything like that... meat, cheese, and of course candy. Anything processed.

[PotHeadParadise]

nah bro like they are natural life forms just because we re bigger than them dont give us the right to kill them as we please thats fucked up bro

[MadFedora]

At 1/15/14 08:05 PM, Thor wrote: Or a worm? Spiders? If so, what kind? I'd eat mealworms, I heard they don't taste that bad.

I visited Cambodia like years ago and during a break from road trip, a merchant offered me some spicy fried spiders. At first I grossed the heck out of it. Then I reluctantly tasted one. Guess what? It tasted great! (However I had 2 days through the diarrhea so I don't recommend!)

Other insects I had consumed in the past are silk worm, scorpion and cricket.

[koopahermit]

Insects have 4 times more protein than raw beef. Pound for pound that is.

[Sensationalism]

At 1/15/14 08:16 PM, Lagerkapo wrote: Never

ever

ever

Ever

eating a Fruit Roll-Up again...

Soooo this.
And very very no.

[Vinnyy]

I'd try some cockroaches just for the crunchiness.

[kazumazkan]

I hate sour cream n onion flavored crickets before, from a store sold them in boxs

[Sense-Offender]

I'd probably try chapulines. Mopane worms, though, no way. Eugh.

[BurningJesus]

At 1/15/14 08:20 PM, Thor wrote:

At 1/15/14 08:17 PM, BurningJesus wrote: I have eaten grubs that have been fried in butter and garlic.

Were they good? That sounds interesting, maybe for a salad or with pasta

Yeah. It felt like I was eating those little potato sticks but tasted like butter and garlic.

[Tremulos]

I'm more interested in what causes the disgusted attitude towards insect consumption in first world countries than I am in what they actually taste like. Sure, we don't grow up eating the things, but what makes them creep [some of] us out so much? I blame television

[Viper]

Nope.
No way in hell am I doing that.

[VJF]

Wasn't it said somewhere that humans swallow an average of 10 spiders in their sleep during their lifetimes?

[Entice]

I've eaten ants, and fried up some grasshoppers once.

They were bland, but it was probably just how I cooked them.

[Chocomilk]

At 1/15/14 08:16 PM, Lagerkapo wrote: Never

ever

ever

Ever

eating a Fruit Roll-Up again...

I'd still eat fruit roll-ups. I'd have to see it physically happen in front of me to not eat one if I had one. They're so damn delicious and i've already eaten hundreds of them in my lifetime.

At 1/16/14 12:52 AM, VJF wrote: Wasn't it said somewhere that humans swallow an average of 10 spiders in their sleep during their lifetimes?

Disproven boom

[VJF]

At 1/16/14 02:31 AM, Chocomilk wrote:

At 1/16/14 12:52 AM, VJF wrote: Wasn't it said somewhere that humans swallow an average of 10 spiders in their sleep during their lifetimes?

Disproven boom

Really? That's good to know. I have bad arachnophobia.